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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  much stuff? HOW?) and went hiking in the White Mountains, a ~2h45m drive ... 're not familiar with The Tempest, Ariel is a little spirit bound to serve ... anybody is wondering. Here's a picture of 4/5 of us climbing a sculpture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  that non-traditional applicants take some college courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying to brush up on their ... decision about what letters of support to send for review is left up to the
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  this entry: what is IAP? The one-sentence, in-a-nut-shell version that I ... Independent Activities Period, is a month-long intersession in January between ... when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  that was much longer than 1 hour, but the opening banquet had a lot going ... is the total square footage of MIT.nano? What is the shortcut for a ... , as orthogonal research directions from industry needs is often how the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  application to computer science. Unlike Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess, poker is a game of ... with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  the future of coal research at MIT, because Professor McRae is kind of a ... , Maine. What a coincidence that Matt's entry on thanking parents came on ... in a sustainable fashion anytime soon. So, until we get a big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  the driver in a vaguely [annotation note="this is how I knew the guy was ... scent.~ My friend is a big fan of perfumes and she's been taking me to ... "] this is a pic from when I arrived in Greece, but the Thessaloniki airport

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  is replicable because bird song could be more easily studied if a bird ... life as a scientist.” Her favorite part of the research is working ... running around a lab in the dark chasing a loose bird.” When she is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... is a lot better now, and I went out into the city just on my own a lot ... gantry system to do that. This is a subtle difference, but a huge one. When

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  seriously:  pay attention during REX.  Having fun at a dorm’s quirky event?  That event is probably a sneak peak into how the residents have fun with ... )... THROWBACK!   “Throwback to what?” you might ask.  Well the answer is a simple

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  bathtub" -- how cool is internet in the bathtub? You can be playing in a ... for a few days), since my fam is hopping on a plane to LA early tomorrow morning. My little brother (well, not so little anymore) is a sophomore

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  does not interest me all that much. My dream job in the Air Force is a ... (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... team to learn “Wargaming,” which is like a more complex game of Risk but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary ... exploration is a fine substitution. It's just like non-carcinogenic sugar ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  piece is just a series of things loosely held together by a vague relation ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... , is a list of thoughts. They’re aimless, agonizing, tiring, burdensome

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  -deception.' 'How can a man live in perfect harmony?' To which YISUN replied, 'Non ... Admissions also has a student-run blog? This is a blog post from Mary. D '20 ... , this is assuming a lot of knowledge that I don’t have!“). The Book of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  procrastinate, I still take time to relax no matter how much work I'm facing, but when I have a lot of work is also when I most enjoy my relaxation ... these thoughts!) I guess that's how it is here -- most people at MIT seem

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  nevertheless much happier and more grounded than I had been a year ago. How I ... with its rush of cars. I'd forgotten how quiet the desert is.  I was ... [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... phone for half hours at a time, explaining how I just felt incompetent and ... which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  a picnic on the beach. Cape Cod is one of Massachusetts' more popular ... imply that fruit is a continuous spectrum?), chips, salsa, and -- for ... should be -- relaxing, and not too much more. I took a lot of time taking

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  much more confident in my identity as a designer, builder, and maker ... how to use a machine, and they also put in the underappreciated work of ... a learning community and traditional advisors. I didn’t take as much

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025